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Monday, August 11, 2014

TEELING WHISKEY STARTS WORK ON FIRST NEW DUBLIN DISTILLERY IN OVER 125 YEARS

The Teeling Whiskey Company has today announced that work
has commenced on their new whiskey distillery located in Dublin’s Newmarket in
The Liberties, Dublin 8.Bringing the
Teelings home to their ancestral roots, this is the first new distillery in
Dublin in over 125 years and will be a modern revival of the family distillery
that thrived in the area in the 18th century.The Teeling Whiskey distilling equipment is scheduled to
arrive in October and commissioning of the distillery will commence before the
end of this year. There will be more than 100 people employed during the
construction of the distillery with 30 permanent jobs created following its
completion.

New distillery to create over 30 new permanent jobs in Dublin’s Liberties

Jack Teeling, Founder and Managing Director of the Teeling
Whiskey Company commented “We are proud to be returning to our ancestral
distilling roots which trace back to 1782 in The Liberties. This project brings
distilling back to an area of Dublin long associated with world class whiskey
which, at one stage, had 37 different operational distilleries and was known as
the ‘Golden Triangle’ due to the cluster of Irish whiskey manufacturers in one
small area.Dublin whiskey was at the
forefront of the last golden age of Irish whiskey.We aim to revive the Spirit of Dublin by
putting Dublin and Teeling Whiskey firmly back on the map again.”The Teeling Whiskey brand is already on sale in Ireland and
is now in over 25 export markets.The
construction of the new distillery will guarantee future supply for the Teeling
Whiskey brands and allow the creation of a range of innovative and authentic
Irish whiskeys based on the traditional and unique Dublin style of distillation.
The new pot still distillery will have the capacity to
produce 500,000 litres of whiskey on an annual basis and will consist of three
traditional copper pot stills reviving the traditional style of the old Dublin
distilleries. In addition, the visitor centre will become a true Dublin
destination; providing an experiential journey into the history of Teeling
Whiskey, the whiskey heritage of the Liberties, the unique Dublin whiskey
distilling process and whiskey tasting.Source: Teeling Whiskey Company